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page_title: Consul Enterprise
description: >-
  Consul Enterprise features a number of capabilities beyond the open source
  offering that may be beneficial in certain workflows.
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# Consul Enterprise

[Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul) features address the organizational complexities of collaboration, operations, scale and governance. It includes capabilities that improve failure resilience, read scalability, and managing access in accordance with organizational policies. It also adds support for application and service architectures across complex network topologies. If you have already purchased Consul Enterprise, please see the [licensing section](#licensing) below.

Features include:

- [Audit Logging](/docs/enterprise/audit-logging)
- [Automated Backups](/docs/enterprise/backups)
- [Automated Upgrades](/docs/enterprise/upgrades)
- [Enhanced Read Scalability](/docs/enterprise/read-scale)
- [Redundancy Zones](/docs/enterprise/redundancy)
- [Advanced Federation for Complex Network Topologies](/docs/enterprise/federation)
- [Network Segments](/docs/enterprise/network-segments)
- [Namespaces](/docs/enterprise/namespaces)
- [Sentinel](/docs/enterprise/sentinel)
- [OIDC Auth Method](/docs/acl/auth-methods/oidc)

These features are part of [Consul
Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul).
